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JOHN V. JEPSON, OF BR'OGKLYN, NEW YGRK.

Lettere .PatentNo- 53,524-, dated April 2, 1867.

IMPROVEMENT IN PIPE GUTTER.

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TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:

Be it known that I, nJOHN V. JEPSON, of Brooklyn, in the county ofKings, and State of New York, have invented a certain new and usefulImprovement in Pipe or Tube Cutters; and I do hereby declare thefollowing to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same,reference being had to the annexed drawing, making part of thisspecification, and in which is shown the side elevation of a tube orpipe cutter with my improvement applied thereto.

The object of my improvement is to cut or scrape the scale and bur offot' the pipe or tube at the same time tire cutter separates it.

In the drawing, A represents the head of the cutter, and B the cutter,which are the same as that for which a patent was allowed to me on the27th of June, 1866. Indeed the tool for which a patent was then allowedis the same in ever-y respect excepting only the scraper C, whichin'this case takes the place ofthe lower cutter in the other tool.k Afront elevation of this scraper is shown/by D, and a side elevation byC, which'also shows the stem, which passes through the lower jaw of thewrench, and which holds the scraper in its'place. In working the toolthe pipe or tube is placed between the scraper C and cutter B, whichlest-mentioned device is pressed forward on the tube and revolved orvibrated about its surface, and as the cutter makes its way in the pipethe scraper cleans oil the scale and bur on both sides of the cut; theface of the scraperrbeing made wide enough, as at D, to clean both sidesof the cut as described.

Having now described the nature of my invention, I claim, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent--i The use of a scraper, G, in combination witha cutter, B, when the two are arranged in a tool, to cut and scrape apipe or tube as set forth.

JOHN V. JEPSON. Witnesses:

Aires' BROADNAX, PETER D. KENNY.

